Themed collection In celebration of the Lunar New Year, 2024

By drawing inspiration from photoredox catalysis, the field of radical-mediated alkane functionalization has made remarkable advancements recently to address the challenges of today and future.

This review summarizes the synthesis methods, characterization methods, research progress and regulation strategies of HAEs in the field of electrocatalytic HER, HOR, OER, ORR, CO₂RR, NRR and AOR, providing deep understanding for future applications.

The design principle and synthesis method of halide solid-state electrolytes are discussed in detail. Interface optimization of halide solid-state electrolytes and their applications in all-solid-state batteries are described.

Carbon dot-based room temperature phosphorescence materials are reported, mainly focusing on the outstanding contributions over the years, phosphorescence emission, phosphorescence lifetime, preparation and application.

This work reviewed the new progress of conductive hydrogels in the application of tissue repair and provided a useful reference for further preparation of safer and more efficient conductive hydrogels for tissue engineering.

This review highlights the basic principles and the state-of-the-art methodologies for regulating the Si/Al ratios and Al distributions as well as their impact on performances. A perspective on their precise control is presented.

The excellent performance of porous Cu/Zn electrodes can be attributed to rapid mass/ion diffusion, and the electronic effect between Zn and Cu lowers the energy barrier for *COOH formation on the active sites, facilitating CO generation.

We developed TCMBank which contains 9192 herbs, 61 966 unduplicated ingredients, 15 179 targets, 32 529 diseases, and their pairwise relationships. We developed an ensemble learning-based drug discovery protocol for identifying potential lead.

Site-selective heat boosting electrochemiluminescence microscopy is reported, which enhances the ECL intensity and advances the onset potential due to a local heating spot.

This paper describes a multi-tribe hybrid evolutionary algorithm that combines differential evolution and genetic algorithms for surface structural optimization accelerated by an on-the-fly machine learning calculator.

Rhodium-catalyzed C–H activation of benzamides bearing two classes of N–N directing group has been realized in the coupling with diverse alkynes, delivering N–N axially chiral biaryls in excellent enantioselectivity.

A cobalt-catalyzed atroposelective C–H/N–H annulation of sulfonamides with allenes or alkynes, using either chemical or electrochemical oxidation, was disclosed, which affords C–N axially chiral sultams with high regio- and enantio-selectivities.

Precisely engineering the electron donor in a twisted D–π–A system achieves mitochondria-targeting and AIE-active NIR photosensitizers with the ¹O₂ quantum yield up to 6.8 times that of Rose Bengal. NIR image-guided PDT has thus been realized.

A photo-responsive full-color lanthanide supramolecular switch was constructed from pillar[5]arene derivative (H) Tb³⁺ or Eu³⁺ complex and dicationic diarylethene derivative (G₁) through a noncovalent supramolecular assembly.

A sequential C–H gem-difunctionalization of 1,3-benzodioxoles with α-trifluoromethyl alkenes and electron-deficient alkenes in a redox-neutral radical polar crossover manifold have been developed for the synthesis of monofluorocyclohexenes.

This paper describes the design of hollow-structured Ag@C electrocatalysts to adjust the local reaction environment for high-performance CO₂RR in acidic media.

Three new Cu(I) based metal halides with excellent optical properties were developed by rational structural design, and a high-performance WLED was fabricated with the resulting material.

An efficient type I zwitterionic photosensitizer MPD-O was constructed by an oxidization strategy, providing a new guideline for the development of AIE-active type I photosensitizers.

This work presents an integrative framework for optimizing organic fluorophores' TICT tendency and environmental sensitivities towards various applications. Two newly developed probes could detect the early phase of Aβ aggregation.

The chemical bonds in the group-2 fluoride anions AeF⁻ (Ae = Ca, Sr, Ba) have four polarized bonding orbitals, namely two occupied σ orbitals and a pair of occupied degenerate π orbitals with sd-hybridized atomic orbitals of the atoms Ae.

A series of triarylborane derivatives were prepared by introducing different push–pull electronic groups. Upon incorporation into a PMMA matrix, these triarylborane derivatives with a D–π–A system (BN) had good versatility for photo-induced ultra-long RTP materials.

We report herein two lemniscular carbon nanohoops bis-po-CC and bis-pm-TC with contiguous conjugation from planar chiral [2.2]paracyclophane, and elucidate the influence of the regioselective synthesis on their topological chirality.

We report a flexible self-supporting Ti₃C₂T_x MXene/carbon nanofiber film fabricated by electrospinning. It served as a multifunctional CDI electrode with high-performance antifouling and antibacterial activity.

This work reported a series of pyridine modified multiple resonance emitters. The dynamic bond interactions brought by the pyridine moiety endowed the emitters with superb photophysical properties and excellent device performance.

Bond regulation not only makes the interlayer spacing larger, but also gives MoSe_2+x a double reaction mechanism combining intercalation and conversion reactions. Consequently, the capacity and energy density of MoSe_2+x can be greatly improved.

We designed two functionalized tetrahedral DNA nanostructures (f-TDN1 and f-TDN2), which could assemble into giant DNA networks triggered by APE1, achieving sensitive detection and intracellular imaging of APE1 as well as gene therapy.

Benefiting from highly reversible structure evolution of pre-lithiated Li-rich Li₂Ni_0.5Mn_1.5O₄ cathode, the corresponding anode-free pouch cell delivers a considerable energy density of 350 W h kg⁻¹ and 97% capacity retention after 50 cycles.

A compact and clamped CHA-control-HCR (CCH) circuitry system, specifically for amplified multi-microRNA imaging, is developed to precisely distinguish cancer cells from normal cells.

In order to improve the critical issues of Zn dendritic in zinc-ion batterie, we investigate herein a hybrid electrolyte with PAN-DMSO-H₂O. With the synergistic effects of PAN and DMSO, a uniform, smooth and dendrite-free Zn anode could be obtained.

Organic–inorganic halide perovskites (OIHPs) are very eye-catching due to their chemical tunability and rich physical properties such as ferroelectricity, magnetism, photovoltaic properties and photoluminescence.

An asymmetrical architecture is developed to discriminate monosaccharide enantiomers based on enzyme-like cascade reactions in homochiral CuMOF pockets. The increased enzyme-like activity under LSPR excitation enhanced the identification performance.